We had always anticipated sending our kids to single sex schools. Now we have b/g twins it just doesn't sit that well with me, I can't put my finger on exactly what it is that is making me think like that. Maybe because I would miss one of their 'first' days.....I dunno.

Anyone do this or decide against doing it?

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I have girls 17 months old, so have a little while to worry about school, but i don't think i could send my two to different schools, even if i had b/g. I think I would even have trouble putting them in separate classes, but I would do what is best for their development.

It is your choice though, good luck.

Are you talking about pre primary and early primary school? Most public and private ones are co-ed aren't they?

Pick one that is co-ed and send them there and see how it goes.

For high school - we haven't decided where they will go, I always think it is best to see what kind of personality, talents, etc they have before making any definite decisions. I would be comfortable with different schools with my boy/girl twins though if that is what was best for them.

I'm a fraternal twin (b/g) - from personal experience it was nice having my brother in the same classes with me during infant/primary school.

However, by the time we reached highschool, because we were b/g we had different sets of friends. We were therefore happy to go to separate same sex highschools.

Overall, I think it is probably different for b/g twins than it is for same sex twins. Same sex twins may stick together more, but b/g twins will form friendships of their own gender IYKWIM.

For primary/infants I would keep them together. But for highschool it doesn't matter so much.

Good luck with your choice.

hi there

this is so true....we have just found out we're having 1 boy 1 girl and had always assumed they'd be same sex.

we have our DD booked into a girls school for year 7 and will be booking our girl and boy into the girls/boy school from year 7 but they will be a few streets away from each other

i kind of figure by high school they won't mind too much

in saying that we might send our boy to the boys school from year 5 if he wants to go as that is an intake year.

I definitely know where you're coming from and I guess it depends on what age you are planning to send them to single sex schools. For us because we're catholic its generally co-ed primary and then single sex for high school and you've got to book in so early these days to get them in to the good schools you want.

Corrie;)

We are just starting down this path . We had the option of sending them to separate schools but have chosen not too. Instead we have found a private school that is co-ed. We start the interview process at the end of the month to see if they get in. We are going to request though that they be separated so each can develop their own friends and personalities.At day care they do their own thing and I want them to be themselves not referred to as someones twin brother or sister.The good thing as they get older they are not noticed as twins as much and are left alone.